Month: March 2020

A pair of bespoke shoes from Maftei in Vienna —
Part 1: The Order

Bernhard Roetzel orders his first pair of bespoke shoes from Maftei in Vienna, meeting Lucian Maftei at Ladage & Oelke in Hamburg. The Maftei family came from Romania in the 1980s, the workshop is still there, the trunk shows have toured Germany for over twenty years.

Tailors

Do you have to be friends with your tailor?

Over years of fittings, customer and tailor often grow close. Sometimes the relationship turns into friendship. Bernhard Roetzel weighs whether that is good for the work or quietly gets in its way.

Outfitters

ANTON MEYER – ready-to-wear that fits

Founded in Hamburg in 2012 by Marc Anthony and Max Meyer-Abich, Anton Meyer sits stylistically between late-eighties Hackett and SuitSupply. Italian cut, German figure, suits sewn in Portugal, an „Ingmar BF“ at 485 euros and the „Helmut Blau“ shirt at 95.